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John Ragan White

Male 1819 - 1894  (75 years)


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  • Name John Ragan White  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth 9 Mar 1819  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5
    Gender Male 
    Death 12 Jun 1894  [6
    Notes 
    • He had one son, William, enrolled in the District 6 School of Sabine County in 1854.
    • (Research):
      Census Listings:

      1850 Census
      Louisiana, Sabine Parish
      13 Sept 1850
      303-305
      Jno. R. White 29 M Farmer 400 Miss
      Amaza White 25 F Miss
      Will White 4 M La
      Anna White 1 F La
    Person ID I453  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2014 

    Father Edward White,   b. Abt 1781, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1871, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 90 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Strickland,   b. Abt 1795, Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1864, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage Aft 1809  Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • Bears and Panthers and Sabine County Women

      This story from the 1800s, as told by the master storyteller, J.Frank Dobie, gives another reason not to mess with Sabine County women:

      "One winter day the White family on Bear Creek in Sabine County killed a hog, cut it up, put the meat in a wooden tub, and set it in a corner of the cabin, to be salted down and smoked on the morrow.

      Then the man went off with his dogs to join the neighbor on a hunt.

      That night while Mrs. White was chunking up the fire in the fireplace, the children covered up in bed and a quilt wrapped around herself to shut out the cold norther blowing through the chinks in the log walls, she heard a panther scream.

      She knew it had smelled the fresh meat. It prowled under the puncheon floor and then leaped up on the roof, every once in a while letting out a scream. Then it went to clawing on the logs and finally got a paw through a crack near the tub of meat and took out a piece.

      At this, Mrs. White threw her quilt over the tub, seized an axe standing just inside the door, and waited.

      In a little while the panther put its paw back through the crack for another piece of meat. She had the axe raised and now she came down with it, cutting the paw clean off.
      That panther did not bother around the cabin any more that night."

      ----- J. Frank Dobie, "Tales of Old-Time Texas"

      Posted by Ronad Barlow on his Facebook group, Farm Road 1 - From one end to the other. It is not known which Mrs. White this story relates to.
    Family ID F68  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jemimah Amazia Vardeman,   b. 1 Sep 1825, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1875, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Marriage 3 Aug 1843  [1
    Children 
     1. William R. White,   b. Abt 1846, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Anna White,   b. Abt 1849, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1860 (Age ~ 10 years)
     3. Cade Drew White,   b. 3 Jan 1851, Sabine Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Dec 1912, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     4. Mary Ann White,   b. Abt 1854, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Marcus White,   b. Abt 1857, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1870 (Age ~ 12 years)
     6. Thessolonia "Theisa" White,   b. Feb 1860, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Mar 1953, Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 93 years)
     7. Emily Edna White,   b. Abt 1868, Brookeland, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1965, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 97 years)
     8. Dora White,   b. 30 Jul 1870, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1901, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
    Family ID F368  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 9 Mar 1819 - Mississippi Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S195] McDaniel, Loye White--Family Researcher (Ancestor Chart).

    2. [S416] Casagranda, Kathy "Sabine Parish The 1850 Census with added Family Information" (May, 1999: P.O. Box 2195, Palmer, Alaska 99645), p 94 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S352] Schluter, Helen Gomer "1860 Census of Sabine County Texas with Civil War Records".

    4. [S431] Toole, Blanche "1870 Census Sabine County, Texas".

    5. [S352] Schluter, Helen Gomer "1860 Census of Sabine County Texas with Civil War Records", Listed as age 43, born in Mississippi. (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S463] White, Charlie-Family Researcher DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD WHITE.

    7. [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 58 (Reliability: 3).